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Firearms and Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Siena

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With lively narrative and detailed illustrations, Simon Pepper and Nicholas Adams trace the evolving relationship between technological innovations in firearms in sixteenth-century Italy and advances in Renaissance military architecture and city fortification. Through their use of paintings and drawings, extensive archival research and first-hand observation at the major sites of the Sienese wars, they vividly recreate the drama of the battlefield.

Language: English

Pages: 245

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: January 27, 2010

ISBN: 0226655342

ISBN 13: 9780226655345

Firearms and Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Siena

4.2/5 ( ratings)

With lively narrative and detailed illustrations, Simon Pepper and Nicholas Adams trace the evolving relationship between technological innovations in firearms in sixteenth-century Italy and advances in Renaissance military architecture and city fortification. Through their use of paintings and drawings, extensive archival research and first-hand observation at the major sites of the Sienese wars, they vividly recreate the drama of the battlefield.

Language: English

Pages: 245

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: January 27, 2010

ISBN: 0226655342

ISBN 13: 9780226655345

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